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There is an argument that says, roughly, that knowing the details of the
neurophysiology and neuroanatomy of an organism (I'm particularly interested
in humans) will still leave you ignorant  of important details
of the psychology of that organism.

The argument is sometimes made as an analogy with computers:  knowing the
hardware details of any (or all) of the many computers on which Unix can run
will tell you some constraints that Unix must deal with, but won't tell you
much about Unix itself.  Similarly, knowing the details of the brain (and
the rest of the relevant system(s)) will tell you some constraints on the
psychology of an organism, but not much more.

I'd be happy to hear comments on this argument (which I'm neither endorsing
nor rejecting), but more importantly, I'd appreciate pointers to published
versions of the argument (and related arguments).                ^^^^^^^^^

Thanks in advance.
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